supertbone
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Up until a few months ago when adding a cache to a list from the cache page we had the ability to add a note for that cache in that list without having to go load the list and editing the note. Can we had this feature back in? This new functionality makes this process longer.
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Yesterday I generated a new Groundspeak token and was able to download some PQs since in GSAK. Today I am getting errors (Message #184) saying my token is invalid. I have gotten new tokens several times in a row and still get this error after each new token was issued when I try to use them.
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Having found 1700+ Unknown caches and solved many, many more I find that coord checkers are useful when dealing with advanced level math. ciphers, if a particular puzzle has multiple solutions, or if the solution found in a range. They aren't very helpful when the coords are plainly encrypted (exif data in a photo, hidden in html, jigsaw puzzle, etc) or are onsite puzzles (obviously).
I have seen many COs use a certain coord checker to validate that the user did indeed solve it.
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I think even for traditionals this would be appropriate. How many times have there been a cache placed with bad coords and another finder has posted better ones? I see this all the time.
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I think it's legitimate to be able to modify the placed by dates, but either the search needs to be modified to allow a "since the beginning of time" start date, or make the searches compare the published date (which is not modifiable) rather than the placed date.
Actually querying by published date could be helpful when querying for newly published caches as well. Querying by placed date gets you close, but in scenarios when the date gets modified after publishing you would miss those too.
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I have seen several examples where the year in the Hidden Date is set so far in the past that the search by date Pocket Query function will not query for it. One example is GC62EKP with the date set in 1947. I have even seen some with a date of 01/01/1900. Dates should never realistically be placed that far in the past. Perhaps the hidden/placed date should allow the user to edit this date.
When creating a cache listing, or after a cache listing is published a user can edit the placed date field. This seems to be what your asking. You can edit the date for times in the past, but except for event types you can't edit the date into the future.
Because of this ability to alter the date, it screws up the ability to query by this date since the PQ's don't support any date search prior to 2000. Obviously no caches were listed prior to that. So either, the ability to edit the date needs to be removed or the ability to set the query parameters prior to 2000 needs to be provided.
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I have seen several examples where the year in the Hidden Date is set so far in the past that the search by date Pocket Query function will not query for it. One example is GC62EKP with the date set in 1947. I have even seen some with a date of 01/01/1900. Dates should never realistically be placed that far in the past. Perhaps the hidden/placed date should allow the user to edit this date.
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I am still finding issues with this functionality in various places not returning caches. I have a PQ that fetches most of I-80 in Nebraska from North Platte to near Omaha and there is a section where caches right next to the interstate and well with in the search parameters gets excluded and not maxing out the 1000 cache limit. I have tested this using various PQs that pass through there and shortened the route to do a 80 mile stretch of I-80 where the route is very linear with out much deviation. It returned in this Test PQ I made only when I bumped the radius to the max, which is weird since the parameters returns other caches along that route, but not in one area. Where I am seeing this is from GC317VQ to GC48YF2. Some examples are below.
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I can confirm that those caches are missing from your query. When I created the route from scratch, though, and eliminated the cross-over at Julesburg, I get all of those missing caches. Can you confirm?
I did that and got the missing caches that I didn't get before. I wonder why the loop would foul it up. Is there a max amount of points on a route to query off of?
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That route appears to be doubling back on itself around Julesburg. I wonder if this could be causing some computational confusion.
Can you provide some examples of caches that should be appearing in the PQ but are not?
Moun10Bike, on this PQ what I find is that periodically strips perpendicular to the route are where the caches are missing. I noticed two examples and included links to images highlighting the missing caches.
Here are the ones I found that are missing
Cheyenne, WY
GC1DPK8
GC695G5
GC2MJ49
GC191X2
GC276AE
GC14NB7
GC1MW02
GC16CW7
GC5NE8Z
GC5NE98
GC5NE8Q
GC1HYGZ
GC1NH4V
Egbert, WY
GC1NH3R
GC1YKC5
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I have several caches along a route PQs where not all caches along that route are returned. The routes were created on site. I recognize that the routes don't perfectly follow the roads and the map in the PQ preview shows this. The preview also show a highlighted area along the path based upon the radius selected in the PQ. The caches I am missing are well inside this area and are not being filtered out by any options. Has anybody found any similar issues. I have seen this on route between Rock Springs, WY and North Platte, NE, specifically in the Cheyenne area.
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What do you like most about challenge caches? - I like that they are different from traditional caches. That some are easily proven by the stats page on the website.
What do you not like about challenge caches? - I HATE that they are hard to filter from other in the unknown types. I hate that some challenges have limiters on which caches qualify such as ones where you can't use caches hidden before the date placed of the challenge cache, finding caches only on a milestone, ones that are impossible (cache where you have to find ones in 15 counties and it is placed in the middle of North America), ones that require you to limit the amount of caching you do (I have cached out my area and I have limit how much I find in a day so that I can do a new streak challenges) or ones that you to find a set of caches on their anniversary (GC399PX). I dislike ones that require hours of sifting through GSAK to find the ones that qualify, such as the ones where you have to find so many published by a certain reviewer, but that doesn't stop me from finding and logging them.
What would you like to see changed about challenge caches? - I would like to see challenges be segregated to a new cache type, so I can query for them. An attribute wouldn't work since that can be removed or not added in the first places. I would also like to see the challenge verification process improved to where it is a lot simpler to validate that you complete it and that someone else completed it. As much as I like challenges some necessitate the use of third party software and macros to prove validation. That runs counter to the rule that you can't require puzzle solvers use third party software to solve a puzzle. How does requiring you to spell out a word of phrase by cache names a challenge?
If you could describe your favorite challenge cache type, what would it be? - My favorite was one that required that I find 2000+ physical non-traditionals, D/T grid, cache by date found, cache by date placed, jasmer (since older caches are coming harder to locate this might have to be changed), elevation bands, find caches in all counties in a certain state, X icons in a day.
What types of challenge caches do you avoid? - I generally find most challenge caches I come across.
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I use the ignore list almost entirely for events that have passed or for ones that I know I will not be making.
If I want to exclude caches from my GPS I use the user flag to GSAK and filter them out.
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If a cache of mine is missing or is damaged, I gladly appreciate the gift of a throwdown. I don't make my caches overly hard and so if I start getting DNFs it is because they are truly missing. I have placed replacements for my friend's caches when theirs go missing as well.
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I love finding unknowns, partly because of the challenge, also because I am looking to complete a challenge cache requiring that you have found atleast 2000 non-traditional physical caches. I am almost 100 shy of meeting this goal.
Some areas, particularly the Bay Area are full of puzzles. In that area there is a core group of cachers, who I assume work in the tech industry, that try to one up each other.
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I like the proposed changes, but I would like to see the following added to be able to query against.
- County
- Elevation
- County
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After midnight server time I had 3 PQs run per the website. I got emails for just one of them. That one is the only one that is available for download by API and by the site.
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I have a large set of coordinates for benchmarks that exist in an excel file. I would like to be able to import them into GSAK as waypoints so that I can map them and load them on to my GPS. Can anybody walk me though how that could be done?
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This morning I was able to download a PQ and check the number of hits I have left on the APIs, but when attempting to refresh a set of caches in GSAK, the API doesn't respond and times out.
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I had 4 selected to run and only two did.
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To TPTB, please have one of these at the Earthcache Megaevent in St George, UT on 9/7.
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This sounds interesting and I hope this can carry forward.
Last month I served on the geocaching staff at the BSA National Jamboree in the Summit Bechtel Reserve. We placed 14 caches for the scouts to go find as a part of the curriculum we provided. Several scouts and scouters (adult scouts) were hoping for a real cache to find and log but we were unable to offer anything since the jamboree site is not publicly accessible. Some sort of special event cache would have been great and these lab caches sound like just the thing. The only issue is that there was no event cache or mega event cache to attach them too. Something there would have been really nice for the attendees too.
We also had several travel bugs and geocoins dropped off. We were unable to log them into anything though one did log them at a cache near the entrance of the Summit Bechtel Reserve.
I can tell you that all these geocachers that stopped by were very happy to talk to us but there most always was an underlying disappointment that they would be unable to log a smiley at the jamboree.
I made it up to Groundspeak's display and was discussing just this thing with Lackey Amy (DellaBell?) but there ended up being a lightning warning and everyone had to leave the area so our conversation was cut short.
So I'm very interested in finding out more about these lab caches and how we might be able to make use of them at the next jamboree in 2017.
Thanks!
My son was there and I know he was hoping for a loggable cache too.
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Is there a process in place yet for geocachers wanting to place these, or will Groundspeak be doing them all?
EDIT: Skip that, I see the answer. Nothing to see here.
I really hope that one will be allowed for the 2nd International EarthCache Mega Event in St George, UT on Sept 7th.
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I have had caches in my front yard for some time. I usually make them premium member only and a puzzle cache or a letterbox hybrid to limit the novice cachers. Plus I include a blatant hint to where on the property it is, this way people don't look in neighbors yards.
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I agree. That is kind of a crappy solution.